Plants, Animals, Protists, Fungi, Archaebacteria, Eubacteria
| Domain Kingdoms | Eukaryota Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista | Archaea Archaea | Bacteria Bacteria |
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Living things are divided into five kingdoms : animal, plant, fungi, protist and monera.
Every living thing comes under one of these 6 kingdoms. The six kingdoms are Eubacteria, Archae, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia . Until the 20th century, most biologists considered all living things to be classifiable as either a plant or an animal.
Even under this new network perspective, the three domains of cellular life — Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya — remain objectively distinct.
The Animal Kingdom contains these seven Phyla: Porifera, Cnidaria, Platyhelminthes, Annelida, Mollusca, Arthropoda, and Chordata . The bodies of animals are made up of differentiated tissues to perform an equally specialized task, sometimes in to or three levels of differentiation (excluding sponges).
The first organisms on earth were simple prokaryotes . Prokaryotes are organisms which have no complex membrane bound organelles or nucleus. Modern bacteria and archaea are prokaryotic.
Nonliving things do not grow, need food, or reproduce. Some examples of important nonliving things in an ecosystem are sunlight, temperature, water, air, wind, rocks, and soil . Living things grow, change, produce waste, reproduce, and die.
The living organisms are divided into five different kingdoms – Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia, and Monera on the basis of their characteristics such as cell structure, mode of nutrition, mode of reproduction and body organization .
The three-domains of Carl Woese’s Classification system include archaea, bacteria, eukaryote, and six kingdoms are Archaebacteria (ancient bacteria), Eubacteria (true bacteria), Protista, Fungi, Plantae, Animalia .
Five kingdom classification is done on the basis of 5 factors- cell structure, body organization, mode of nutrition, mode of reproduction, and phylogenetic relationship . It also puts unicellular and multicellular organisms into different groups.
Today is the 290th anniversary of the birth of Carolus Linnaeus , the Swedish botanical taxonomist who was the first person to formulate and adhere to a uniform system for defining and naming the world’s plants and animals.
Kingdom Animalia contains all the animals and it is the largest among the five-kingdom classification. Kingdom Plantae consists of all the plants on the earth. Viruses are not made up of living cells so they do not belong to any particular kingdom .
